https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asean/1463230/more-deaths-follow-indonesia-prison-riots More deaths follow Indonesia prison riots
- 11 May 2018 at 18:58 653 viewed0 comments - WRITER: KYODO NEWS <http://search.bangkokpost.com/search/result_advanced?category=news&columnistName=Kyodo%20News> People gather in Jakarta on Friday to pray for the police officers who were killed during a riot and hostage crisis at a high-security jail near the capital. (Reuters Photo) JAKARTA: Indonesian police said Friday three more deaths occurred after they declared an end to a riot by Islamist militants at a detention centre near Jakarta, in which five police and one inmate died the day before. Another member of the elite Mobile Brigade police unit was stabbed to death late Thursday, the police said, shortly after a 38-hour standoff at the detention center in Depok was said to have ended with the surrender of rioting Islamic militants being held there. A 22-year-old university student allegedly stabbed and killed a 41-year-old intelligence officer inside the brigade's headquarters building, where the youth had been brought for questioning for acting suspiciously, according to National Police spokesman Setyo Wasisto. The young man died after being shot by another policeman, Setyo said. It was not immediately clear whether the student was a member of a terrorist network. "We are still investigating his background," Setyo told a news conference. In a related incident, one suspected Islamist militant was killed and another wounded by police when a fight broke out while four men were being bought to Jakarta for questioning, according to Setyo. Police arrested the four men in the town of Bekasi in West Java Province early Thursday, after receiving intelligence reports that the four were on their way to the detention center near Jakarta to join the rioting Islamist militant detainees in fighting the police. While being brought to Jakarta for questioning, two of the four men attacked policemen who were escorting them and tried to grab their weapons. The policemen then shot them, killing one and injuring the other, Setyo said. "Early investigation shows that the four men were members of the Islamic State-linked Jamaah Ansharut Daulah who planned to get involved in the detention center riot," he said, adding police had seized various kinds of weapons and ammunition from those men. When militant inmates began rioting at the detention center on Tuesday, radical Muslim groups called via social media for their followers to go to the Mobile Brigade's headquarters to help the inmates fight the police.
